The Study Edition of America and its Peoples is loaded with features designed specifically to enhance the performance of students, save them time studying and help them perform better on examinations, including Expanded Chapter Reviews and Practice Tests!

As with the Fifth Edition of America and its Peoples,social history-with an emphasis on sports, leisure, and popular culture-is effectively integrated with more traditional coverage of military history, politics, and diplomacy. This edition highlights the rich ethnic diversity of the American people with vivid character sketches, colorful anecdotes, primary sources, new pedagogy, and a spirited narrative.

1. The Peopling and Unpeopling of America. 2. Plantations and Cities Upon a Hill, 1620-1700. 3. Provincial America in Upheaval, 1660-1760. 4. Breaking the Bonds of Empire, 1760-1775. 5. The Times That Tried Many Souls, 1775-1783. 6. Securing the Republic and Its Ideals, 1776-1789. 7. The Formative Decade, 1790-1800. 8. The Jeffersonians in Power, 1800-1815. 9. Nationalism, Economic Growth, and the Roots of Sectional Conflict, 1815-1824. 10. Power and Politics in Jackson's America. 11. America's First Age of Reform. 12. The Divided North, The Divided South. 13. Cultures Collide in the Far West. 14. The House Divided. 15. A Nation Shattered by Civil War, 1860-1865. 16. The Nation Reconstructed: North, South, and the West, 1865-1877

The Study Edition of America and its Peoples is loaded with features designed specifically to enhance the performance of students, save them time studying and help them perform better on examinations, including Expanded Chapter Reviews and Practice Tests!

As with the Fifth Edition of America and its Peoples,social history-with an emphasis on sports, leisure, and popular culture-is effectively integrated with more traditional coverage of military history, politics, and diplomacy. This edition highlights the rich ethnic diversity of the American people with vivid character sketches, colorful anecdotes, primary sources, new pedagogy, and a spirited narrative.

Table of Contents

1. The Peopling and Unpeopling of America. 2. Plantations and Cities Upon a Hill, 1620-1700. 3. Provincial America in Upheaval, 1660-1760. 4. Breaking the Bonds of Empire, 1760-1775. 5. The Times That Tried Many Souls, 1775-1783. 6. Securing the Republic and Its Ideals, 1776-1789. 7. The Formative Decade, 1790-1800. 8. The Jeffersonians in Power, 1800-1815. 9. Nationalism, Economic Growth, and the Roots of Sectional Conflict, 1815-1824. 10. Power and Politics in Jackson's America. 11. America's First Age of Reform. 12. The Divided North, The Divided South. 13. Cultures Collide in the Far West. 14. The House Divided. 15. A Nation Shattered by Civil War, 1860-1865. 16. The Nation Reconstructed: North, South, and the West, 1865-1877